That’s what she use to do before she got the Weekend Breakfast gig - she’s actually a pretty decent newsreader when she doesn’t have to do banter
Yes, preferably on midnight to dawn if such a shift exists.
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7NEWS: Australia Decides – Election 2025
Seven calls the result first. Coverage reaches 2.78 million, ranks #1 among commercial networks
The Seven Network has delivered on its promise to be the first network to call the result of last night’s Federal Election, declaring Prime Minister Anthony Albanese the winner at 8.08pm.
7NEWS National Desk Director Hugh Whitfeld, at the 7NEWS Power Board, called the Labor victory as it became clear the Coalition was failing to secure key seats and experiencing a swing against it in several states. 7NEWS declared there was no path for a coalition victory at 7.59pm, before affirming Anthony Albanese’s Labor majority nine minutes later.
The Seven team delivered the most comprehensive coverage of the Federal Election last night – and the most watched coverage on commercial TV – reaching 2.78 million Australians across Seven and 7plus.
7NEWS: Australia Decides: The Results Live was led by co-hosts Michael Usher and Natalie Barr, alongside veteran 7NEWS Political Editor Mark Riley, and included Australia’s best election team and political panel, backed by cutting-edge technology.
Live from 7NEWS Election Central, the coverage also featured some of Canberra’s most high-profile power players, including Bill Shorten, Tanya Plibersek, Jane Hume, Michaelia Cash, Clare O’Neil, Warren Mundine and Clive Palmer.
Kicking off at 4.00pm AEST yesterday with a special national edition of 7NEWS, Seven’s coverage included 7NEWS: Australia Decides – Election 2025 at 5.00pm AEST, 7NEWS at 6.00pm and 7NEWS: Australia Decides: First Count and 7NEWS: Australia Decides: The Results from 7.00pm AEST.
Seven’s Federal Election coverage by the numbers:
7NEWS: Australia Decides: The Results : National reach 2.78 million, national audience 580,000.
7NEWS at 6.00pm: National reach 1.78 million, national audience 911,000.
7NEWS: Australia Decides: First Count from 7.00pm: National reach 1.68 million, national audience 580,000.
7NEWS: Australia Decides – Election 2025 at 5.00pm: National reach 1.13 million, national audience 328,000.
Seven Network Director of News and Current Affairs and Seven West Media Editor-in-Chief, Anthony De Ceglie, said: “We delivered on our promise to call the election first, thanks to our investment in cutting-edge technology, which was analysed quickly and accurately by Hugh Whitfeld and our panel of political insiders.
“I think it’s fair to say that Seven had the best election panel, backed by our Situation Room filled with powerbrokers and insiders. Special mention to Bill Shorten for his zingers and Clive Palmer who was characteristically colourful.”
7NEWS National Desk Director Hugh Whitfeld said: “We invested in Seven’s election data systems, bringing political scientists in house, and working with teams in the US and here in Australia to make sure we could call it first – and we did at every step.”
“Seven wanted to make sure our viewers were the best informed with the clearest possible information – and they were. Thank you to our team of producers and experts who helped deliver for our audience.”
7NEWS Political Editor Mark Riley said: “It is such a privilege to be part of 7NEWS’ unrivalled political team on nights like these.
“After five gruelling weeks on the road with both leaders, we were able to identify the elements of a truly stunning landslide victory as it built before our eyes and make the important calls first, fast and accurately as a significant new moment in political history unfurled in real time."
I thought it was sky news who said it first
Another entry in the growing library of Peta Credlin looking salty at another Labor win
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AUSTRALIA VOTES: ABC sets record federal election audience
The ABC’s Australia Votes 2025 federal election coverage has achieved record audiences across platforms.
The ABC Network and ABC iview dominated prime-time viewing last night with an FTA Total TV prime-time share of 48.4%.
Australia Votes 2025: Election Results Live ( 8.30pm-10pm AEST) was the #1 election night program with a Total TV national reach of 4.1 million Australians and Total TV national average audience of 2.4 million viewers.
The ABC NEWS website and app achieved more than 5.7 million users across the day and almost 500,000 more via Apple News.
ABC NewsRadio and Local Radio recorded around 200,000 live streams via the ABC listen app with many more listeners across the local and national radio networks.
Across the campaign period Vote Compass has achieved 1.5 million completes and the Your Say audience callout has received more than 27,000 online submissions online plus thousands of voices on local radio.
Among the audience highlights:
Australia Votes 2025 on scheduled broadcast (ABC TV and ABC NEWS Channel) and ABC iview
- Election Results Live (8.30pm-10pm AEST): Total TV national reach of 4.1 million and Total TV national average audience of 2.4 million viewers (#1 FTA program)
- Election Night Live (7pm-8.30pm): Total TV national Reach of 3.8 million and Total TV national average audience of 2 million viewers (#2 FTA program)
- The People’s Decision (10pm-11.30pm): Total TV national reach of 3.2 million and Total TV national average audience of 2.0 million viewers (#3 FTA program)
- Election Latest (11pm-midnight): Total TV national reach of 2.3 million and Total TV national average audience of 1.1 million viewers (#7 FTA program)
Source: OzTAM VOZ National Total TV, Overnight Sunday 3rd May 2025, each Viewing threshold is >60 seconds for Broadcast TV Reach and > 15 seconds for BVOD. All programs were simulcast on ABC NEWS Channel, TX times are in AEST. VOZ FTA Network Share based on When Watched 6pm – Midnight (share excludes Sky News Regional).
Digital
ABC NEWS website/AMP: 4.9 million users, the biggest daily audience on record since the current measurement system was introduced in January 2023
- ABC NEWS app: 862,000 daily users, also the highest figure under the current measurement
- ABC NEWS also had 498,000 unique viewers on Apple News
- The federal election live blog accumulated 4.2 million page views
- The ABC NEWS Channel live stream on the web and app accumulated 1.7 million streams overnight
ABC listen app
ABC NewsRadio recorded 92,000 live streams on the ABC listen app yesterday
- ABC Local Radio capital city stations recorded 108,000 live streams
Source: Snowplow Analytics. ABC Local Radio Stream includes Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, Canberra, and Darwin. FY25YTD includes daily avg users from July 1 2024 – May 3 2025
Social
On YouTube, ABC News Australia’s main election live stream accumulated 967,000 views overnight
- On TikTok, the live stream on the @abcnewsaus account accumulated 186,000 total views
*Note: YouTube numbers may change as the platform allows catch-up viewing, while TikTok is live viewing only. Numbers as of 11:50pm AEST, May 3 2025
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It looks dreadful. I feel like I’m doing aerobics while watching it. Also seasick.
The wide angle shot also lasts far too long (presumably so they can crop the video for vertical format online platforms) and it makes me feel like the vision director has fallen asleep at the camera switcher.
Full tribute for the GOAT:
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Honestly think they were having tech issues. There’s just no way any producer would allow such long sweep shots.
If I’m wrong - they need to go.
@Leo_Puglisi6 just looking at your coverage, great work as always. Big to get people in the party HQs too.
Is there any reason you’re still using your webcam as your studio camera? Compared to some of your colleagues who have more “proper” cameras/studio backgrounds.
Not much has been said about Ten’s coverage, I flicked over to it a few times and I know it wasnt magnificent, but I think the fact Ten did have a go should be mentioned. I thought Hugh Riminton did an ok job. Perhaps Ten could look at launching an 8am Sunday morning political style show (eg Meet The Press, Face To Face, Face The Nation style show - some possible names for it). Ten are really missing in action every morning and Sunday morning could be an opportunity before sports shows and ABCs equivalent political program
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I didn’t hear any commentary on the Senate race last night. There might have been some, but only fleeting.
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Now that you meantion it did anyone see any of the Betoota advocate on there? They kept talking it up and I didn’t see them all night. When were they on there?
Sandra did a weird kind of jab/ thanks to them at the end… was weird
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Looking back at the live stream they appeared for at least two short crosses, but nothing other than that.
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Watching them try to be rational when they’re irrational and emotional was funny,
There was not one ounce of congratulations for Labor and Albo or any analysis on what they offered, it was all just blame and navel gazing. The framing was just bizarre.
Why would they offer congratulations lol
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